No such thing as a regular month

I know the philosophy. I’ve drank the Kool-Aid. I budget for my stupid true expenses.

I just hate hate hate how some months can be so wildly out of budget. For example, I recently stayed with family, so had to pick up a lot of groceries. I budgeted $100 for groceries in the category because that’s how much I spend on my own! But this month I spent $400! That’s not banana stand money, that’s move-from-future-car-savings money.

Or, I just had to buy flights for family to go back home (personal emergencies). $4000!!! Luckily I had the money to cover it (yay for emergency funds), but my spending is normally so low that these big expenses just completely overshadow it, messing up stats and making it so hard to get an average.

Dear world: can I just get ONE normal month?? I want to calibrate my budget!!!

To be clear, I love my family and don’t care about spending money on them, those are just the first examples that came to mind :)